Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college student wrote home to his father for some money to buy books. The father promptly replied: "I shan't give you any money to throw away on books. You don't need them. I've been through college myself...
Washington University has received a magnificent transit instrument from George Partridge. They need an observatory as well...
...turn out enough officers to command our present small shadow of an army. In time of trouble the nation will have to depend for the most part on leaders chosen from the more intelligent citizens. In this class the college graduate figures prominently and should in case of sudden need be prepared to take the lead in upholding principles or repelling foreign enemies. How much better it would have been for all concerned if twenty-three years ago the men who were preparing to take the field from Harvard and, in fact, from all parts of the country had even...
They find no objection with the scheme of an advisory committee, but think that the members of it need not be confined necessarily to the faculty...
...This resolution would unjustly prevent many good men from entering into inter-collegiate athletics who are fairly entitled to do so, who, while pursuing professional studies, are in need of the exercise and recreation afforded by such sports, and who by previous training and habits of life are often especially well fitted to get the fullest advantage from such pursuits. As to the possibility of fraud, the rules of the Undergraduate Inter-collegiate Athletic Association amply cover the ground. These rules established by the students render the college itself directly responsible, and make it practically impossible that men can here...